Greg Lake, ELP

these_go211 · #1 11-03-2006, 10:43 AM

since greg also played guitar for these guys, when they toured did they bring along another guitar player? i'd imagine lake stuck to bass and singing live but maybe i'm wrong.

VanillaO · #2 11-03-2006, 11:38 AM

je ne sais.. but (unless i'm mistaken and it's not him.. which is possible), he did a hell of a job on 21st century schizoid man

Sneckumhaw · #3 11-03-2006, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by these_go211

since greg also played guitar for these guys, when they toured did they bring along another guitar player? i'd imagine lake stuck to bass and singing live but maybe i'm wrong.

Check out their live albums. Stuff like Still...You Turn Me On he plays acoustic guitar, often the only accompaniment to his singing. A lot of the prog songs he plays guitar, too, leaving Emerson to play a version of the bass lines on his keyboards which I feel sounds EXTREMELY inadequate compared to the studio recordings. The live stuff is cool as long as Greg sticks to bass and vocals and they actually play as a band.

peteroberts · #4 11-04-2006, 12:33 AM

I only saw them once, but no extra personnel, just Keith, Greg, Carl, and a huge array of keybords and patch panels

Greg played bass most of the time but switched to acoustic guitar for 'From the Beginning' and 'Lucky Man'. Keith's left hand was the bass player for those tunes.

dls59 · #5 11-04-2006, 09:13 AM

Didn't Lake often play Moog Tuarus pedals when he palyed acoustic?

MaskedJackal · #6 11-04-2006, 01:57 PM

Lake is one of my all-time favorites. Sadly, he's really in denial of being known as a bass player, and considers himself strictly a guitarist. His distortion on "The Barbarian" is my favorite bass distortion ever. His voice is also one of my favorites.

peteroberts · #7 11-04-2006, 07:47 PM

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His distortion on "The Barbarian" is my favorite bass distortion ever

Does anyone know how he got it? I agree, it's one of the best distorted tones ever.

MaskedJackal · #8 11-06-2006, 01:20 AM

Biamping for sure, given the low end clarity. All the live vids I've seen have him using a Precision. Other than that, I'm clueless. I had a thread on this in Effects a couple months back, and nobody came up with an answer. Hmm....

PhR · #9 11-06-2006, 02:24 AM

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All the live vids I've seen have him using a Precision.

In the seventies with ELP he used a Jazz Bass and Gibson Ripper (plus a Rickenbacker very occasionally) until he switched to Alembics.

CSM799 · #10 11-06-2006, 05:00 PM

I was a huge ELP fan back in the day. Saw them 5 times. If Greg Lake was playing guitar then Keith Emerson would pick up the bass parts on keyboards. Carl Palmer would sometimes play bass on syn-drums.
For three guys they really had a huge full sound. Wish they would do something again.

MaskedJackal · #11 11-06-2006, 07:21 PM

Yep- that 8-string pirate-themed Alembic is GORGEOUS. And now that I look at an old "Barbarian" vid...you're right, it's a J.

Sneckumhaw · #12 11-06-2006, 09:02 PM

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If Greg Lake was playing guitar then Keith Emerson would pick up the bass parts on keyboards. Carl Palmer would sometimes play bass on syn-drums.

And this really proved how phenomenal a bassist he was. They sounded (IMO, don't want to get atttacked) horrific when Keith tried to play bass on keyboards. Greg IS a good guitarist, though.

these_go211 · #13 11-07-2006, 08:53 AM

i was in awe the first time i heard lake's tone and playing on king crimson '21st century schizoid man.' lake is a good guitar player too. 'still you turn me on' highlights that.

thanks for the replies!